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Title: American adventures : a second trip "Abroad at home"
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Street, Julian, 1879-1947
Subjects: Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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PASSIONATE PALM BEACH usual escort of young men—for though they know noneof the fashionable women, their beauty gives them apower of wide selection as to masculine society. One is a show girl, famous in the way such girls be-come famous in a New York season, vastly prosperous(if one may judge by appearances), yet with a pros-perity founded upon the capitalization of youth andamazing loveliness of person. The other two, less ad-vertised, but hardly less striking in appearance, havebeen nicknamed, for the convenience of the gossips,The Queen of Sheba, and The Queen of the May.They too suggest, somehow, association with the trivialstage, but it is said that one of them—the slender won-derfully rounded one—has never had the footlights inher face, but has been (in some respects, at least), amodel. Like the climbers, like the bush league belle, thesegirls, we judge, brought definite ambitions with them toPalm Beach. Partly, no doubt, they came for pleasure,but also one hears stories o

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